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(Just like) Starting over - John Lennon - 1981

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John Lennon: Biografia | Biography

John
Winston (later Ono) Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, in Liverpool,
England, to Julia (Stanley) and Alfred Lennon, a merchant seaman. He
was of Irish, and some Welsh

and English, ancestry. In the mid-1950s,
he formed his first band, The Quarrymen (after Quarry Bank High
School, which he attended) who, with the addition of Paul McCartney
and George Harrison, later became The Beatles.

After
some years of performing in Liverpool and Hamburg, Germany,
"Beatlemania" erupted in England and Europe in 1963 after
the release of their singles "Love Me Do" and "Please
Please Me". The next year the Beatles flew to America to appear
on Toast of the Town

(1948) (aka The Ed Sullivan Show), and
Beatlemania spread worldwide. Queen Elizabeth II granted all four
Beatles M.B.E. medals in 1965, for import revenues from their record
sales; John returned his four years later, as part of an antiwar
statement. John and the Beatles

continued to tour and perform live
until 1966, when protests over his calling the Beatles phenomenon
"more popular than Jesus" and the frustrations of touring
made the band decide to quit the road. They devoted themselves to
studio work, recording and releasing

albums such as "Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Magical Mystery Tour"
and the "White Album". Instead of appearing live, the band
began making their own "pop clips" (an early term for music
videos), which were featured on television programs of the time.

In
the late 1960s John began performing and making albums with his
second wife Yoko Ono, as the Beatles began to break up. Their first
two albums, "Two Virgins" and "Life With

The Lions",
were experimental and flops by Beatles standards, while their
"Wedding Album" was almost a vanity work, but their live
album "Live Peace In Toronto" became a Top Ten hit, at the
end of the 1960s.

In
the early 1970s John and Yoko continued to record together, making
television appearances and performing at charity concerts. After the
release of John's biggest hit, "Imagine", they moved to the
US, where John was nearly deported because of his political

views (a
late-'60s conviction for possession of hashish in the U.K. was the
excuse given by the government), but after a four-year legal battle
he won the right to stay. In the midst of this, John and Yoko
separated for over a year; John lived in Los Angeles with personal

assistant May Pang, while Yoko dated guitarist David Spinozza. When
John made a guest appearance at Elton John's Thanksgiving 1974
concert, Yoko was in the audience, and surprised John backstage. They
reconciled in early 1975, and Yoko soon became

pregnant. After the
birth of their son Sean Lennon, John settled into the roles of
"househusband" and full-time daddy, while Yoko became his
business manager; both appeared happy in their new life together.

After
a five-year break from music and the public eye, they made a comeback
with their album "Double Fantasy", but within weeks of
their re-emergence, Lennon was murdered on the evening of December 8,
1980 by Mark David Chapman, a one-time Beatles fan angry

and jealous
over John's ongoing career, who fatally shot Lennon four times in the
back outside his apartment building, The Dakota, as Lennon was
returning from a recording

session. Within minutes after being shot,
John Lennon was dead at age 40. His violent death was a sudden
and tragic end to the life of a talented singer and musician who
wanted to make a difference in the world.